4in the final/last analysisBASICused when giving the most basic or important facts about a situation 总之,归根结底
In the final analysis, profit is the motive.
归根结底,利润就是动力。
Examples from the Corpus
in the final/last analysis• In the final analysis Stalin was just as much a dictator as Hitler.• In the final analysis, the project was a failure.• And, in the final analysis, are they any good?• The pressures driving researchevaluation are, in the final analysis, political.• But in the final analysis it had been he who wanted out.• But in the final analysis, these are just details.• The shift of leadership to JohnSmith may seem temporarily convincing, but it is in the last analysiscosmetic.• The responsibility for the accident must, in the last analysis, rest with the captain.• The Trotskyist movement could benefit only in the final analysis and in the long range.• It should also comfort to recognize that, in the final analysis, these sums are operating to purifydecision-making.• That, in the final analysis, is what organizational control is all about.
nCOLLOCATIONS
ADJECTIVES/NOUN + analysis
a detailed/in-depth analysis
a detailed analysis of the firm’s earnings
an in-depth analysis (=detailed analysis)
an in-depth analysis of global warming
a careful/close analysis
Students learn to make a close analysis of the texts.
a brief analysis
Let’s start with a brief analysis of the situation.
statistical analysis (=using statistics)
Their research was based on statistical analysis.
a critical analysis (=that makes judgements about how good or bad something is)
Write a critical analysis of the following poem.
economic/political/scientific etc analysis
His book provided a scientific analysis of human behaviour.
data analysis
the use of databases for data analysis
verbs
be based on an analysis of something
This work has been based entirely on an analysis of large mammals.
do/carry out/perform/conduct an analysis
No similar analysis has been done in this country.
provide/produce an analysis
The report provided an analysis of the problems we need to address.
an analysis shows something
DNA analysis shows that the blood and the saliva come from the same person.
an analysis suggests/indicates something
Our analysis suggests that these problems are widespread.